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My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived. -- Wayne Dyer
Our responsibility in life is not to lie around and wait for things to happen. Our responsibility in life is to work. Life is getting out and getting things done. When people say they're over-the-hill at age 50, I don't understand it. -- Herschel Walker
At age 28, I had no retail experience, no consumer marketing experience and no real Internet experience. But I decided I wanted to work for myself. I felt starting a company would enable me to get the responsibility I deserved and that I couldn't do that within the confines of a bigger company. -- Mariam Naficy
When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age. -- Eliza Dushku
I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem. -- Tabare Vazquez
For me, having a child is a really great responsibility because you've got something there that is depending on you for information and love until a certain age when it goes to school. -- Kate Bush
I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man. -- Jamie Foxx
For me, love is not about froufrou New Age-ism. It's about a way of living and honoring the interconnectedness of life and accepting our responsibility and our power to change the world for the better. -- Julia Butterfly Hill
Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very specific way because it's the beginning and ending of the early life of imagination. It's such a responsibility. -- Nicole Ari Parker
I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others. -- Blanche Lincoln
In India, the eldest has the most responsibility and the crown goes to him. The crown could go to a person with the most talent. But how could 'most talent' be determined? So Indian society settled on age. -- Devdutt Pattanaik
I'm moving into that eldership age, you know? I'm at the 'wise woman' age where it's not about learning, but utilizing the information that I have in a way that serves other people. That's a high calling and it's a great responsibility. -- Iyanla Vanzant
I'm self-deprecating, but I'm an artist, too. I have to write new songs to chronicle stuff for myself. I write a song like 'Middle Age' or 'Responsibility' or 'I Just Work Here,' and it's about how bleak life can be. But it's real. -- Steve Forbert
Any young man coming of age has a lot to go through. Peter Parker certainly has a lot of responsibility, and without doubt, so does Pippin - his role, his life, and how he is going to perform it. It's all about choices and how we make them. -- Matthew James Thomas
I think I had only been working nine months when I got 'Star Trek,' and it was huge. It was very overwhelming. So that opened my eyes a bit at an early age, kind of how not be frightened when walking into a responsibility of something like that. -- Tom Hardy
I am the type of girl with zero fashion sense, but I am getting into it now. It's becoming important for me. I saw a lot of girls were beginning to notice what I wear, and I feel a kind of responsibility because there aren't any women in Hollywood my size and age. -- Rebel Wilson
There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice. -- George Hickenlooper
In Latino culture, the quinceanera's a big thing - it's when a girl becomes a woman. But I think age is just a number - you become a woman with the responsibilities you take on and the decisions you make. I started realizing that every day is a gift - you have every day to be thankful you're alive. -- Emily Rios
Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age. -- Robert Martin
It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility. -- Jules Feiffer
I think being a good Christian father, your responsibility varies with the age and the stage that your children are at. -- T. D. Jakes
Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime! -- Edwin Louis Cole
I was the oldest child, and both my parents worked, so I had a great deal of responsibility from a very young age. -- Suzanne Vega
You can bring your children under age 18 into the voting booth with you. Many families do so as a way to teach civic responsibility. -- Christine Pelosi
There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility. -- Maria Callas

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